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Their motto was "the story changes, the ending stays the same": their operatives protected the Web of Time by ensuring, by whatever means, that the net result of history remained constant, even though details might change. (AUDIO: The Kingmaker) Because they often violated the Time Lords' non-interference policy, they had to operate in secret so as to give plausible deniability to the High Council. (PROSE: World Game)

The CIA sent a Time Lord as their agent to Apertsu to serve as a security consultant; however, he was captured by Aubertides who wanted the secret of regeneration. (PROSE: Human Nature)

The CIA began to fear the number of temporally active races, so they began experimenting with various temporal technologies, including the TARDISes, in an attempt to move the minds of (newly created) TARDISes within the minds of aliens taken from over 50 planets. Time Lady Professor Klyst oversaw this experiment. (AUDIO: Unregenerate!)

Around twenty years before the start of the War in Heaven, (PROSE: The Book of the War) the CIA foresaw became worried that they might be erased from history in the upcoming fight between the Time Lords and the enemy. To escape this fate, they created Mictlan, a world outside of time and the universe for themselves to hide within. However, they also needed to remove themselves from the universe of physicality, and therefore turned themselves into the Celestis by erasing themselves from time and becoming ideas. (PROSE: Alien Bodies, The Taking of Planet 5)

At the start of the Last Great Time War, Romana was still Coordinator but the power of the agency in Time Lord Politics was decreasing as the power of the War Council increased. By the time the Daleks attacked Phaidon the agency still had enough power to potentially veto an asylum vote. Romana also negotiated a information sharing procedure between the CIA and the War Council (AUDIO: Celestial Intervention) Later in the early stages in the war the Agency was trusted to find a way so that Livia could resign on a constitutional technicality. The Agency had to stop Project Revenant from falling into the hands of the Daleks. (AUDIO: Desperate Measures)

Niroc was Lord President of the Time Lords after the Doctor was deposed during his long absence. The Celestial Intervention Agency removed Acting President Flavia from office and instated Niroc, a much more controllable President, in her place. (TV: The Trial of a Time Lord)

The acronym CIA is a reference to the Central Intelligence Agency, which in the real world would engage in covert activities outside of US soil while also maintaining "plausible deniability". Holmes originally conceived the Time Lords as corrupt and maintained that they worked in the same way.[source needed]